...are best understood by exploring the development of three senior Civil Service posts: those of Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Cabinet Secretary, and Head of the Home Civil Service. In...
...Disraeli penned best-selling novels. A more recent development, which may indicate the beginning of a convergence with the US model for former Presidents, is for former Prime Ministers to set...
...best to deal with it was a persistent source of tension. Once George had found an effective parliamentary manager in North, the political situation within Britain, and Parliament’s role within...
...continued significance, some doubted whether a Prime Minister was best placed there. Yet such objections could be grounded less on principle than an aversion to a particular individual. George Canning’s...
...they seem an offering from the fauns and dryads of the woods’. Most importantly, both shared a strong sense of destiny and the conviction that they were best-placed to understand...
...the role of Prime Minister The task facing the minister travelling with the King was a delicate one. On the one hand, he was in the best position to understand...
...plans but also to steal his thunder. Nevertheless, Hitler was well aware that the Munich agreement provided the best chance of achieving his aims without an early war. Chamberlain’s ‘piece...
Ask anyone to name Winston Churchill’s best-known speech and nine times out of ten they will answer: We shall fight them on the beaches. It’s not an exact quotation –...
...best for the building eventually led to the Downing Street of today. This first blog provides the historical background to the rebuilding, with more to come in future blog entries...
...the effect of confirming, rather than undermining, Anglo-French friendship: both countries entered into ostensibly non-committal military conversations to plan how best they might cooperate if a war broke out and...